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2026-08-01·20 min read

Enterprise AI Enters the Governance Era

In 2026, enterprise AI moves from efficiency tools to agents. When AI reads data, executes operations, and influences HR decisions, what enterprises need is not smarter models but governance systems that can harness them.

AI GovernanceHR Tech

2026-06-12·2 min read

47% of Workers Now Spend More Time Managing AI Than Doing the Work Itself. Two-Thirds Say It's Made Them Happier. Both Are True.

BCG surveyed 185,000 workers globally. Nearly half now spend more time directing AI than doing the actual work. Two-thirds say they're happier for it.

HR TechAI GovernanceFuture of Work

47% of Workers Now Spend More Time Managing AI Than Doing the Work Itself. Two-Thirds Say It's Made Them Happier. Both Are True.

2026-06-04·8 min read

AI Doesn't Save Money. It Moves It.

The companies winning with AI aren't the ones cutting costs. They're the ones earning faster.

AI GovernanceHR Tech

2026-06-02·3 min read

AI Can Do Almost Everything. So What's Left for You?

I'm opening one slot a week. Here's why.

Leadership

AI Can Do Almost Everything. So What's Left for You?

2026-06-02·5 min read

The Human in the Loop Is Not the Safety Net You Think It Is

The research literature has been quietly dismantling the human-in-the-loop assumption for two years. The industry is now saying it out loud. HR hasn't yet answered the accountability question this creates.

AI GovernanceHR Tech

The Human in the Loop Is Not the Safety Net You Think It Is

2026-05-30·11 min read

The LangChain Ecosystem Demystified

A practitioner's field guide to LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, and Hermes — real distinctions, production failure modes, and when to use each.

AI Dev

2026-05-30·9 min read

Why Enterprise HR AI Keeps Failing

A practitioner's readiness model — 3 layers, 8 dimensions, one score. From content hygiene to governance accountability, find what actually matters for your first AI agent deployment.

AI GovernanceHR Tech

2026-05-26·8 min read

AI Governance Without Skin in the Game

57% of employees are hiding their AI use from their employers. The problem isn't reckless behaviour — it's that governance is being designed by people who've never been close to the failure modes.

AI Governance

2026-05-24·10 min read

I Vibe-Coded a Retirement Planning App With a Team of AI Agents. Here's What I Built — and Why It's Open Source.

Horizon is a bilingual, open-source retirement planning platform built by a multi-agent AI dev team — real pension math, real users, real stakes.

AI DevHR Tech

I Vibe-Coded a Retirement Planning App With a Team of AI Agents. Here's What I Built — and Why It's Open Source.

2026-05-18·13 min read

Building IanOS Part 3: Relationship Intelligence, the External AI Bridge Pattern, and Cross-Environment Lessons

The HR Tech demo board gets a relationship intelligence layer — a 4-dimension stakeholder model, three visualisation modes, and a copy-paste AI bridge pattern that works with any LLM.

AI Dev

Building IanOS Part 3: Relationship Intelligence, the External AI Bridge Pattern, and Cross-Environment Lessons

2026-05-17·14 min read

Naval Ravikant's Philosophy in the Age of AI: Leverage, Specific Knowledge, and Judgment

Naval's framework of leverage, specific knowledge, and judgment faces its ultimate stress test in the AI era — and mostly survives, but not unchanged.

AI Governance

Naval Ravikant's Philosophy in the Age of AI: Leverage, Specific Knowledge, and Judgment

2026-05-06·25 min read

The Impartial Algorithm: What Adam Smith Can Teach HR Technology About AI Alignment

When Walmart's $120M AI recruitment system discriminated 7.3x more than human hiring, it exposed a fundamental AI alignment failure. Adam Smith's 267-year-old Impartial Spectator framework offers a rigorous blueprint for building ethical enterprise AI.

AI GovernanceHR Tech

The Impartial Algorithm: What Adam Smith Can Teach HR Technology About AI Alignment

2026-05-05·4 min read

Building IanOS Part 2: Kanban, Agent Config, and What I'm Planning to Open Source

Public holiday + expiring Claude tokens = very productive vibe coding session. IanOS is taking shape — here's what the framework looks like now.

AI Dev

Building IanOS Part 2: Kanban, Agent Config, and What I'm Planning to Open Source

2026-04-22·4 min read

Bilingual Blog and Full Publishing Pipeline

Launching CN support on the blog, wiring up the full Obsidian-to-everywhere publishing pipeline, and learning that a good SOP is also a very effective firewall against my own bad ideas.

AI Dev